[
The trigger was
a video
]
that
went viral
over the five-day Labour Day holiday in early May,
[
showing a group of middle-aged people opening bottles of dairy product, pouring their
contents
into buckets, and dumping the buckets into a
drainage ditch
]
.
All they were interested in
, apparently, were the bottle caps with QR codes printed on the inside that could be scanned to vote for
contestants
on the wildly popular talent show “Youth With You 3.”
drainage ditch
排水沟
contestant
选手
contest: competition
→练习生怎么说？
练习生就是选秀节目中接受训练的学员，
trainee
[表达]
the trigger is xx
: xx的导火索，缘由，起因
e.g. The trigger of cancer is your unhealthy lifestyle.
go vira
l
:
be widely spreaded
e.g. Let's make joint efforts and make kindness go viral.
content
:
这里指包装里的奶；content可以指包在里面的东西
e.g. He guessed the contents before opening the parcel.
all they are interested in is xx:
这里可以翻译成“他们唯一感兴趣的就是xx”也可以译成“他们想得到的就是xx”来替换“all they want is xx”
e.g. All they are interested in is the content in the parcel.
